SAN DIEGO — Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have been circling each other as contemporaries for around half a century, often making similar movies but rarely the same one. They only appeared in scenes with one another in 1995’s “Heat,” 2008’s “Righteous Kill” and this year in “The Irishman.”
So consider this the Irishman moment for the Yankees and Dodgers.
They have often been cross-country mirror images, participating in the big-city, upper-market terrain in which you would expect a long history of fighting it out for mega free agents. Just like De Niro and Pacino, they just have not been in many scenes with one another.